Annal:2007 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Illustrator in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford, Kadir Nelson
- 2007 CS King-Illustrator winner
- 2007 Caldecott honor
- Score: 16.57
We know Harriet Tubman as the Moses of her people. The quintessential American hero, Tubman guided enslaved Africans along the Underground Railroad—a loose network of racially diverse helpers and top secret hideouts—from bondage of the South to freedom in North.
Yet little is known about Harriet’s first trip. Born into slavery, how did she become free? What was her first trip North like? And what inspired her to make nineteen more trips escorting hundreds of slaves, including her own parents, to freedom? Never once getting caught. Never once losing a passenger.
